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Authors: Jung O, Glachs D, Strohmeier F, Mulrenin R, Huisman S, Smith I, van Keulen H, Sont J, Ploessnig M
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The number of people with diabetes is increasing in every European country and like all chronic diseases it cannot be cured. However, patient empowerment is an acknowledged strategy for improving the patients' health situation. This paper describes the Action Plan Engine developed as a tool for diabetes patients in the POWER2DM project. The Action Plan Engine offers a guided workflow based on treatment goals and activities. A periodic review evaluates how successful a patient has fulfilled these goals...

Authors: Denecke K, Jolo P, Sevinc B, Nüssli S
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Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a chronic disease that affects many people in Switzerland and around the world. Once diagnosed, a patient has to continuously monitor blood glucose, manage medications or inject insulin. Technical skills and competencies as well as knowledge on disease management have to be acquired right after being diagnosed. Diabetes consultants support patients in this process and provide educational material. While the process of generating patient-tailored material is currently complex and time consuming, in future, the eDiabetes platform c...

Publication date: September 2019Source: Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology, Volume 55Author(s): Nasim Zamani, Hossein Hassanian-Moghaddam, Hooman Bahrami-Motlagh, Sara Ahmadi, Scott PhillipsAbstractObjectivesOur study attempts to determine if for patients following ingestion of lead-contaminated opium, radiographs [plain X-ray (KUB)] or unenhanced computed tomography (CT scan) of the abdomen may be predictive of lead poisoning.MethodsOur study is concerned with patients of>21 years with elevated lead concentrations, who had undergone KUB or CT. Patients with other toxicities who had undergone similar imag...

Publication date: Available online 23 May 2019Source: Catalysis TodayAuthor(s): Bang Gu, Cheng Zhou, Shun He, Simona Moldovan, Petr A. Chernavskii, Vitaly V. Ordomsky, Andrei Y. KhodakovAbstractLight olefins are important products of high temperature Fischer-Tropsch synthesis over iron catalysts. In this paper, we found that the catalytic performance of iron catalysts was strongly affected by iron nanoparticle size, their encapsulation inside of carbon nanotubes and promotion with bismuth or lead. The presence of promoters and iron nanoparticle confinement leads to a major increase in the reaction rate. A gradual increase ...

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2019, Accepted Manuscript DOI: 10.1039/C9TA03346G, PaperKamran Dastafkan, Yibing Li, Yachao Zeng, Li Han, Chuan Zhao The development of facile methods to design efficient oxygen evolution electrocatalysts for electrochemical water splitting is an on-going challenge. Not only the sluggish kinetics of oxygen evolution has to be... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry

ConclusionsHuman IGF-1 gene may be a candidate gene for GDM and T2DM risk, as our study suggests a significant association between the IGF-I rs35767 and rs5742612 polymorphisms and the risk of T2DM and GDM in pregnant women, whereas there was no association for rs2288377.

Conclusions: Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy is a safe and effective procedure, with good results in the short and medium term. Long-term follow-up reveals a tendency to weight regain after approximately 2 years from primary surgery, with the need for revisional surgery in some cases.
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CONCLUSIONS Anemia was more common in diabetic CKD patients. Diabetes mellitus was independently associated with iron deficiency. Surprisingly, diminished iron availability was not more frequent in diabetic patients. The physio-pathological mechanisms that could explain these findings remain to be elucidated.